Authentic El Salvador offers a tropical climate (with average daily temperatures in the 70s), uncrowded beaches on the Pacific (good for surfing and for sunning), volcanoes, alluring Mayan ruins and more.

Lori Tripoli is an accomplished freelance writer and editor focusing on law and the legal business, environmental policy and sustainability, higher education and travel. Lori was a founding editor of Sustainability: The Journal of Record and was editor of the New York Law Journal Westchester Edition. A city kid by inclination, she has, in more recent years, embraced adventures in rain forests and caves. Lori’s passions are environmental conservation, travel and writing personal and professional histories. She blogs about her globetrotting habit as the "Bashful Adventurer."